November/December 2012

W.L. Gore & Associates Inc., Newark, Del., has been named one of the World's
Best Multinational Workplaces by the Great Place to Work® Institute.

Brentano Inc., Wheeling, Ill., has added two new fabrics to its Gallery collection
of eco-friendly fabrics: Mythos, a 100-percent post-consumer recycled polyester fabric; and
Perspective, an embroidered faux-leather fabric.

Thames & Hudson Inc., New York City, has published "Textiles: The Art of
Mankind," by Mary Schoeser.

Bozeman, Mont.-based
TEXbase Inc. has been named Innovator of the Year by Montana's Prospera Business
Network.
Textile Exchange, O'Donnell, Texas, has released its 2011 Organic Cotton Market
Report, available for download at textileexchange.org.

ASTM International, West Conshohocken, Pa., now offers the ASTM Professor's Tool
Kit to enable university professors to include technical standards as part of their engineering and
business curricula.

The ASTM Professor’s Tool Kit

Clariant International Ltd., Switzerland, has won ICIS Innovation Awards 2012 in
the Best Overall Innovation category and Innovation with Best Environmental Benefit category for
its Advanced Denim dyeing process.

Lenzing AG, Austria, has won its second Austrian Leading Companies Award in the
Big Player category.

Hollingsworth & Vose, East Walpole, Mass., has a new website, located at
hollingsworth-vose.com.

The Norcross, Ga.-based
Technical Association of the Pulp, Paper, Packaging and Converting Industries' (TAPPI's) International Nanotechnology Division now is publishing NANO360, a
quarterly newsletter.